Galatians 1:8-10 – But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse! 10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Deuteronomy 4:2 – You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.
Hebrews 13:8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Matthew 24:35 – Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
To all who call themselves Christians, who are we. If asked who we most are, what is our response? Let’s not give the acceptable and appropriate answer, but the honest one. After all whom we are shows. Many who know us could probably tell us what is most important about us, to us, because it shouts loudly from our actions, from the passions we live out. So who are we? Are we first of all parents, spouses, a daughter or son, an employee, a patriot, an athlete, a doctor, an engineer? Or what do we work the hardest at and what do we want to be best at? We all know what we should first think of our identity. It is that we are Christians, saved by God, through Jesus our Savior and Lord. That we are His children and the thing that we most want is to please Him and walk in His love and pleasure. Us who call ourselves Christians should be, not in name only, but Christians in heart, intent and actions. (1 John 3:18)
As we look at the world that seems to be becoming overtaken by confusion and yes evil, what are our thoughts? Do we blame the people who don’t agree with us? You know the ones with different opinions, different politics and those who lobby for evil? Family and Friends, it is not they we should be looking at, we should be looking in the mirror. And not only the mirror but at generations of Christians who held the love of the world or their children and grandchildren, or any of their friends and associates, as more important than obeying the Word of God and the Lord Himself. Didn’t Jesus tell us that any who loved family more than God is not worthy of living eternally with Him. (Matthew 10:37, Luke 14;26) Hasn’t the Lord called us to love God first and foremost? Hasn’t He said that we should have no idols before Him? (Isaiah 42:8) After all our Father God did not spare the life of Jesus His Son in order to save us. (Romans 8:32) So He has every right to, as He did with Abraham (Genesis 22:1-19), ask of us full love and loyalty beyond to any other. (Mark 12:30) Full love and loyalty to God should, to us, sound like truth and treasure that rings in our hearts.
So when we Christians are looking for the reason the world is sliding uncontrollably into evil, we should look at ourselves. Are we not charged to be a preservative to the world? (Matthew 15:13, Ezekiel 3:18) But we make excuses for wrong action. We think we ought to “be nice” and not call out error and sin even though that is not what Jesus and the Apostles did. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Revelation 21:8) A large portion of the population, and sadly many in the church, actually believes the nonsense of “Cancel Culture” insisting that we cannot use pronouns such as “he” or “she.” Well the Bible is full of pronouns and God uses them. We can find them throughout the Bible. God called men “he” and women “she” and He is never wrong. He Himself does not change and since He is never wrong, neither does His Word. (Malachi 3:6, Proverbs 30:5-6, Revelation 22:18-18) Can’t we see the evil smile of the devil behind this? Many in the world seek to attack God and His Word. This is part of it. It has risen to the level that it is now publically proclaimed that it is not possible to determine the gender of the child at birth. Yet this is what God has done. He even determined the gender of the child before birth. (Luke 1:13-17, Psalm 139:13) Will we believe this foolish talk before God? No, we will not! The one who contradicts God manifestly displays His foolishness.
What about us “Christian” parents? If our child drinks too much, we don’t want anyone saying they are a drunk as the Bible does. They think it is not nice. We don’t want little Joey or Buffy to have hurt feelings. Family and Friends, we mollycoddle them by telling them it is not sin and that they will be okay. So we fool ourselves into contradicting God’s Word to make our kids, or our friends feel better. To do that is not pushing them to Heaven but dropping them off on Hell’s doorstep. .
People are filled with lusts and we accept the world’s explanation of them walking in the various sins of the flesh. “That is how they were born” we agree with the world and say. That’s not what the Bible speaks of it. The Bible plainly identifies it as sin and states that all who do it will not inherit the Kingdom of God. (Revelation 22:15)
Dear beloveds, let’s not side with anyone or anything over God. If we love them, let us not pacify and so deceive them, let us speak truth to them and lead them to the Lord that He may redeem them from an evil world. That is His desire for them. (2 Peter 3:9) True love is not telling them “I’m okay, you’re okay.” True love is telling them God’s opinion. After all, at the end of all, only God’s opinion matters.
Now maybe some will find what I wrote as too harsh. I stand with everything I write today. I will stand with God and His Word and everyone else can decide with whom and with what they will stand. (Joshua 24:15) In the end, the Lord will judge who and what is right. In fact, He already has. (John 3:18)
None of us are perfect, we all sin. I do and that much too much. Many a day I have cried over them and some still burn me with deep regret. Yet, I will not, and will allow anyone to tell me, that my sin was not, or is not, a sin. Let God be true and all men liars! (Romans 3:3-4) I stand with God, even when that calls for repentance on my knees before Him. I run before the Lord to the altar of repentance and by His love and grace joy is restored to me. Being right with the world seems nice, but only being right with Him is what matters. God before the world, before all family and friends, before all possessions and circumstances, God is God and there is no other. God comes first. Since we proclaim that, let us truly live that without exceptions for others or ourselves. God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, first all the time. That is what loving Him is about. After all, He has first loved us in this way. Besides loving Him this way is the best way to love each other. Oh praise God! Glory to God! Thank you God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown you, Oh man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
Numbers 6:24-26 The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.